If you are looking for the best WPX Hosting Alternative, this post will help you find the right one for your project. I have tested many services to finalize this list of 5 great WPX Hosting Alternatives.
I have done an in-depth analysis of all the services. I am going to share various crucial aspects of these services comprising pricing, performance, and features. By the end of this post, you will surely find the right WPX Hosting Alternative for your project.
| Host | Response Time* | Load Testing** | Email Hosting | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WPX | 423 ms | 28 ms | Free | $20.83/mo. |
| Cloudways | 309 ms | 10 ms | $1/mo. | $10/mo. |
| Nexcess | 374 ms | 66 ms | Free | $9.50/mo. |
| Rocket | 268 ms | 14 ms | No | $30/mo. |
| WP Engine | 374 ms | 40 ms | No | $25/mo. |
| Templ | 309 ms | 33 ms | No | $15/mo. |
*Response time – Rocket hosting comes with CDN enabled by default.
**Load testing – Done by sending 1000 visitors to the site for 1 minute.
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The Best WPX Hosting Alternatives Are
1. Cloudways
Based on our test, Cloudways is the overall best WPX alternative to get started. Cloudways is a managed Cloud hosting platform, and the company has been around since 2009. The service comes with excellent performance, choice, reliability, and support.
Cloudways has tie-ups with five cloud platforms and has a wide range of plans under these platforms. The lowest tier plan in Cloudways starts at $10 per month with DigitalOcean Data Center, 1 GB, 1 Core, 25 GB, and 1 TB.
All Cloudways plans include:
- 24/7/365 Support
- Free SSL
- CDN Add-on
- Free Migration
- Dedicated Firewalls
- 24/7 Real-time Monitoring
- Automated Backups
- Staging Environment
- Regular Security Patching
Cloudways is one of those hosting services that come with excellent performance. I have tested the performance of the service by conducting different advanced performance tests on my Cloudways site.
According to my recent performance tests on my Cloudways site, my site has done exceptionally well in the server response time test with an average of 309 ms while WPX had an average server response time of 423 ms as per my recent server response time test. Hence, you can see there is a huge difference in the performance of the two services and Cloudways undoubtedly has a brilliant speed for sure.
Besides, the service recorded an uptime of 99.99%, which is certainly very reliable while WPX had a slightly better uptime with an uptime of 100%.
Cloudways also has great load handling capacity, and as per my recent load testing on Cloudways site, my site recorded 10 ms in the ‘Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute)’, and 168 ms in the ‘Maintain Client Load (500 Clients in 1 Minute) while WPX recorded 28 ms in Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute) and 222 ms in Maintain Client Load (500 Clients in 1 Minute). Hence, Cloudways has a comparatively better load handling capacity than WPX.
I tested the Global TTFB of the service to find out if the platform is ideal for sites that get traffic from multiple Global locations. I tested the Global TTFB of the service across ten Global TTFB. Cloudways recorded an impressive performance across all the locations with an average of 390.15 ms. If we compare the Global TTFB of Cloudways with that of WPX, Cloudways had a better performance. The lesser the Global TTFB, the better is the performance and the Global TTFB of WPX was 423 ms.
Cloudways also has excellent Core Web Vitals, which helps Cloudways sites deliver an impressive user experience. Cloudways recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.583s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift’ of 0. When I compared the Core Web Vitals of Cloudways with that of WPX, I found the performance of Cloudways slightly better than that of WPX. According to my recent Core Web Vital test on my WPX site, the service recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.601s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0, and a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s.
The service comes with great features as well. Cloudways comes with a huge number of data center locations. Customers can choose from more than 65 data center locations. That way, customers can easily find their data center location with Cloudways.
Cloudways also comes with an in-built CDN add-on. The CDN is powered by StackPath and costs $1 per 25 GB bandwidth. The CDN is extremely powerful in boosting the speed, and content delivery of sites. The service comes with a great backup system with automated daily backups, and restoring a backup is also an effortless process. However, offsite backup costs $0.33 per GB.
I found the service with a very straightforward staging feature. Staging is FREE in Cloudways. The platform has an extremely dedicated staging feature that allows customers to effortlessly create staging sites. It is also equally easy to deploy final changes to the live site after testing.
I have closely studied the security system of the service and found it extremely reliable. Cloudways comes with excellent security features comprising dedicated firewalls, Let’s EncryptSSL, IP Whitelisting, Regular Security Patching, Two-Factor Authentication, Bot Protection against DoS, and brute force. Apart from this, if we consider the track record of the service so far, there has not been a single security issue over the years.
Cloudways has one of the finest support teams in the industry. The support team has done an incredible job in helping the customers with their technical issues 24/7 through live chat, and tickets.
2. Nexcess
Nexcess is another brilliant WPX Hosting Alternative, and a brilliant managed hosting platform. Nexcess was founded in 2000, and the service comes with great speed, and security. The service provides customers with seven plans to choose from. The lowest tier plan in Nexcess starts at $9.50 per month and comes with 1 Site support, 15 GB Storage, and 2 TB Bandwidth.
As far as the Nexcess performance goes, I found it very reliable. I recently tested several aspects of Nexcess performance by conducting a series of advanced performance tests on my Nexcess site.
In the server response test, my Nexcess site performed brilliantly with an average response time of 347 ms. Hence, Nexcess sites are lightning-fast. Further, the average server response time of Nexcess is way better than that of WPX since the average server response time of WPX is 423 ms.
Besides, the service has also performed exceptionally well in the uptime test with an uptime of 100%. The uptime of Nexcess is just as good as that of WPX.
The service also has a decent load handling capacity, which makes it ideal for high-traffic sites. As I tested the load handling capacity of my Nexcess site recently, my site recorded 66 ms in the Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute), and 182 ms in the Maintain Client Load (500 Clients in 1 Minute) while WPX recorded 28 ms in Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute), 222 ms in Maintain Client Load (500 Clients in 1 Minute). Even though the load handling capacity of Nexcess may not be as good as that of WPX, it is still very reliable.
Nexcess comes with a great Global TTFB, which makes it an excellent platform for sites that largely depend on Global locations for traffic. I pinged my Nexcess site from ten Global locations, and my site responded exceptionally well in all the locations with an average TTFB of 544.15 ms. Even though WPX has a better Global TTFB than Nexcess with 440.481, the Global TTFB of Nexcess is reliable as well.
Nexcess sites deliver an excellent user experience, and I can say it based on the Core Web Vitals test that I conducted on my Nexcess site. My Nexcess site recorded a Largest Contentful Paint of 0.654s, a Total Blocking Time of 0.000s, and a Cumulative Layout Shift of 0 in the test. However, the Core Web Vitals of WPX are slightly better with a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.601s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0, and a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s.
Let’s take a look at the Nexcess features now. The service has seven data center locations for customers to select from. Besides, the service offers Edge CDN for FREE on all plans. The CDN is pretty powerful in enhancing the content delivery of sites hosted on this platform.
Besides, the service comes with a FREE, and easy-to-use 1-Click Staging feature. Pushing the final changes to the live site is also pretty simple in Nexcess. Moving over to the backup system, Nexcess has a very dedicated backup system, characterized by FREE automated daily backup and easy restoration.
Nexcess has a very smart and tight security system in place, with iThemes Security Pro for FREE on all plans. iThemes Security Pro has a great reputation for being extremely effective against dreadful online threats, which may include DDoS, malware attacks, or Brute force.
When I looked into the Nexcess support service, I was very impressed. The team has the most knowledgeable, and professional executives. Besides, the service is pretty fast and friendly 24/7 through live chat and phone.
3. Rocket
Rocket is the premium WPX alternative hosting services. If you need to host 25 sites under $200/month with better performance than WPX, then Rocket will be the best choice. The platform helps users easily host WordPress sites. Apart from this, the service is blazing fast and extremely secure.
Rocket has four great plans, and the lowest tier plan costs $30 per month. The plan comes with 1 WordPress install, 250,000 Visits, 10 GB Storage, FREE SSL, CDN & WAF.
I have done an in-depth analysis of the performance of the service. I conducted various advanced performance tests on my Rocket site for good clarity. The results were extremely fascinating.
When I tested the server response time of my Rocket site, my site responded very well with an average server response time of 268 ms, which means Rocket sites are insanely fast. Most importantly, the average server response time of Rocket is comparatively much better than that of WPX since WPX has an average server response time of 423 ms.
Besides, just like WPX, Rocket has an uptime of 100% as well, which makes it extremely reliable.
Rocket is also an exceptionally reliable platform for high-traffic sites. I have meticulously tested the load handling capacity of the service by sending concurrent traffic of 500 and 1000 clients in 1 minute to my Rocket site. My Rocket site recorded 16ms in the Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute) while WPX recorded 28 ms in the Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute).
It was also crucial to find out if Rocket has reliable Global TTFB for hosting sites that drive traffic from multiple Global locations. I tested the Rocket’s Global TTFB across ten different Global locations. The service responded brilliantly in all ten locations and recorded an average TTFB of 158.28 ms while the Global TTFB of WPX is 440.481 ms. That’s undoubtedly very impressive of Rocket’s Global TTFB, and sites that depend on multiple Global locations can undoubtedly get a lot of help from the Rocket platform.
Rocket also comes with very impressive Core Web Vitals. According to my recent Core Web Vitals test on my Rocket site, my site recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.775s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift’ of 0 while WPX recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.601s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0, and a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s. Even though WPX has slightly better Core Web Vitals than Rocket, the Core Web Vitals of Rocket are quite good as well and sites hosted on Rocket can certainly get a lot of help from the platform in terms of user experience.
Rocket provides customers with excellent features. Let me walk you through these features one by one. The service offers customers 20 data center locations to select from. Besides, the service has a great CDN solution in place for great content delivery. Unlike other hosting services, Rocket provides customers with Enterprise Cloudflare CDN for FREE on all plans.
Rocket has a dedicated staging feature, and the service keeps staging exceptionally easy for the users. The host offers this feature for FREE on all plans. I looked at the backup system of the service and found it extremely reliable with FREE automated backups on all plans. The host takes backups every night and stores every backup on the server for fourteen days.
As far as security goes, Rocket has robust security features comprising WordPress Website Firewall, Hack & Malware Removal, Automated WP Core, Plugin, and Theme Updates. On top of that, Rocket has never had any security issues in the past.
I looked into the Rocket’s support service and was thoroughly impressed. Rocket has an experienced support team that does a great job of assisting the customers 24/7 through live chat, email, and phone.
4. WP Engine
WP Engine is the most reliable WPX hosting alternative you can trust on. After the recent downtime of WPX, many of you might look for most reliable host. In that case, nothing comes close to WP Engine.
Established in 2010, WP Engine is a reliable managed WordPress hosting service. Over the years, the service has helped many businesses in delivering an excellent digital experience. The host has four great plans. The lowest tier plan costs $25 per month and comes with 1 Site, 25,000 visits per month, 10 GB Local Storage, and 50 GB Bandwidth per month.
I have meticulously tested the various aspects of WP Engine’s performance. The service performed well in all the tests. I recently tested the server response time of my WP Engine site, and my site responded exceptionally well with an average server response time of 374 ms. On the other hand, WPX has an average server response time of 423 ms. Hence, WP Engine has a better server response time than WPX.
WP Engine has an uptime of 99.99%, while WPX has an uptime of 100%. However, that’s only a small difference and WP Engine has a reliable uptime for sure.
WP Engine also has a great load handling capacity and is pretty good at handling traffic surges. When I conducted load testing on my WP Engine site, my site recorded 40 ms in the Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute) while WPX recorded 28 ms in Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute). Even though WPX has slightly better load handling capacity than WP Engine, WP Engine has a decent load handling capacity as well and is a brilliant platform for high-traffic sites.
The service also comes with Global TTFB, which makes it an ideal platform for sites that get traffic from multiple Global locations. My site recorded an average TTFB of 462.05 ms and decent TTFB across all the locations. WPX, on the other hand, has a slightly lower average TTFB with 440.481 ms, which gives it a leading edge over WP Engine. However, if we consider the average TTFB of WP Engine, that’s quite reliable too.
I have tested the Core Web Vitals of my WP Engine site and was very fascinated by its performance. My WP Engine site recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.737s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift’ of 0 while my WPX site recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.601s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0, and a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s. However, sites hosted on the WP Engine platform can also deliver an outstanding user experience.
When it comes to features, WP Engine comes with brilliant features. WP Engine comes with 20 Data Center locations. Besides, the service comes with FREE StackPath CDN. Sites can largely capitalize on this feature to have better content delivery.
Staging in WP Engine is FREE and easy-to-use. Customers can easily create staging sites right from their WordPress dashboard and test changes. Further, customers can easily deploy changes to the live site. WP Engine also has a great backup system in place. The host offers FREE automated and manual backups. Besides, the host stores every backup offsite on Amazon S3, and encrypts them in transit. Users can have access to up to 60 recent backup points.
I was very impressed with WP Engine’s security system. The service comes with rock-solid security features comprising code reviews, managed core updates and patches, Multi-Factor Authentication, Traffic Encryption with SSL, Threat Detection & Blocking, and Disaster Recovery.
WP Engine has one of the best support teams with the most efficient and hardworking Ireland and US-based executives to help the customers break out of their technical difficulties 24/7 through live chat and phone.
5. Templ
Templ is the fastest alternative to WPX. Templ entered the industry back in 2017 and soon emerged as one of the leading managed WordPress hosting services. The service runs on the Google Cloud platform and comes with brilliant performance and features.
The service provides customers with five great plans to select from. The lowest tier plan in Templ starts at $15 per month, and the plan comes with 1 CPU Core, 0.5 GB RAM, 5 GB SSD Storage, 10 GB Bandwidth, Free SSL, and 1 WordPress Install.
I have conducted several performance tests on my Templ site to understand the various aspects of Templ’s performance. My Templ site performed exceptionally in all the tests. In the recent server response time test, my Templ site recorded an average server response time of 309 ms, which is incredibly fast. Further, it is comparatively better than the average server response time of WPX which is 423 ms.
I have also tested the uptime of the service and found it up to the mark with an uptime of 100% which is just the same as that of WPX.
Templ comes with brilliant load handling capacity and is an ideal platform for hosting high-traffic sites. I can say it based on the load testing I conducted on my Templ site. According to my recent load testing on my Templ site, my site recorded 33 ms in the Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 minute), while WPX recorded 28 ms in Clients Per Test (1000 Clients in 1 Minute). However, customers can certainly count on Templ for hosting high-traffic sites.
I tested the Global TTFB of my Templ site recently wherein I pinged the site from ten different Global locations. My site has had an excellent performance and recorded an average Global TTFB of 353.69 ms. Besides, the site had decent TTFB across all ten locations. As far as the average TTFB of WPX goes, the service has an average TTFB of 440.481 ms. Hence, Templ is an ideal platform for sites that depend on multiple Global locations for traffic.
User experience is a crucial factor for site ranking these days, which is why it was very important to check the Core Web Vitals of the service. However, Templ comes with excellent Core Web Vitals. In my recent Core Web Vitals, Templ performed brilliantly with ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.629s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s, and a ‘Cumulative Layout Shift’ of 0. According to my recent Core Web Vitals test on my WPX site, WPX recorded a ‘Largest Contentful Paint’ of 0.601s, a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0, and a ‘Total Blocking Time’ of 0.000s. If we compare, WPX has slightly better Core Web Vitals than Templ. However, sites on the Templ platform can undoubtedly deliver a great user experience.
Templ has excellent features and there is hardly any important hosting feature, which is missing in Templ. Templ provides customers with as many as 28 data center locations to choose from. Besides, Templ offers Google CDN for FREE on all plans and this makes this service very unique. Google CDN is the most powerful CDN at the moment, and no other hosting company offers this feature. Hence, sites can make the most out of this feature to have exceptionally fast content delivery.
I looked into the staging feature in Templ and found it ridiculously easy to use. Further, the feature is free. Templ also has a very impressive backup system in place, backed by FREE automated daily backups and easy restoration. Every backup is stored for 30 days.
It’s time to talk about the security features of Templ, and the service comes with brilliant security features comprising isolated environments with tight permissions, vulnerability detection and removal, and code reviews. In addition, Templ has the benefit of running on the Google Cloud Platform and uses Google’s high-security network.
Templ’s Support service is very reliable with a dedicated team of experts helping the customers with their queries and issues 24/7 through live chat, email, and phone. Over the years, the Templ support team has done a remarkable job.
Which WPX Hosting Alternative is Best For You?
The best WPX Hosting alternative to get started is Cloudways. They’re lower priced than WPX yet provides faster services as you can see the average response time of WPX is 476 ms whereas Cloudways loads within 300 ms.
If not Cloudways, the Nexcess should your choice as their features are way ahead of WPX. If you’re an agency and need to host a bulk number of sites, check out Nexcess and it’s a deal breaker for you.
